A Sneak Preview of One Mountain Away
Shhh. . . Don’t tell anybody, but I’ve just updated my website and added all new pages about the upcoming release of One Mountain Away. You can find an overview, my inspiration, praise from fellow authors and reviewers, an excerpt, book discussion questions, even a recipe. We had hoped to have an entirely new website to launch…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: A Penny Cheaper
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. I’m spending the summer at Chautauqua Institution, which sponsors morning lectures each week on a different theme. This week’s theme was Water and we were fortunate to have the talented resources of National…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Part Three of One Mountain Away
Tuning in late? I’m sharing the beginning of One Mountain Away today and every Friday through the end of the month when it makes its debut at bookstores. You can read prior excerpts by clicking on Goddess Anonymous under Categories at the right. Start reading at the bottom. Part Three, Chapter Two, part one: Charlotte…
Read MoreThe Little Picture or the Big One? What’s Your Pleasure?
After knee surgery in the spring, I began taking walks each morning. Little by little I’ve increased the distance and speed that I walk, most of it up or down hills, until I’ve gotten back to what’s always been my regular route. But this past weekend I must have exercised with too much resolve, because…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Like Pointed Shoes Too Cheap for Elves to Wear
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. More poetry today about the charms of summer. John Updike’s Chicory certainly brought back a wonderful memory. Years ago my first summer in Virginia followed a spring of new and spectacular beauty for me.…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Part Two of One Mountain Away
Tuning in late? You can discover what we’re doing and why here as well as read the first section. Part Two of Chapter One from Charlotte Hale’s First Day Journal: One of Maddie’s friends is on her way to the dome right now to make sure Porter doesn’t push her. This child, olive-skinned and lean, is…
Read MoreHappy Endings? Yours or Mine?
I’m going to make a confession. I like to smile at the end of a novel. I like to think that problems have been resolved, that the characters I grew to care about will start the next phase of their lives with fewer burdens and a healthy dose of optimism. I like, dare I admit…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Golden-Buttercup-Wild
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Wow, it’s been hot, right? Maybe not for all of you, but many of you have been suffering under the heaviest hand summer has employed in memory. While our weather here in Western NY…
Read MoreFiction Friday: One Mountain Away Begins
What could make more sense one month from the publication of a new book than a preview for my faithful blog readers? So today Fiction Friday begins. For the next six weeks stop by to read the first chapter and a half of One Mountain Away, the first book of my Godesses Anonymous series, one…
Read MoreJune: What Busy Feels Like
I’m always busy. You probably are, too. We zip from project to project, destination to destination. We multi-task and feel guilty we can’t do three things at once instead of two. We put memo pads beside our beds in case we remember something else we need to do in the middle of the night. We…
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